Date: 28 Nov 2014 04:03:56 -0000 From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: johannes@brilliantservice.co.jp Subject: Re: looking for new netbook Message-ID: <20141128040356.28633.qmail@ary.lan> In-Reply-To: <CAASDrVnok2YcCs7qJ1E%2BiXkWO1xVA_EPJmCJA=nr_jbp2etC-Q@mail.gmail.com>
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In article <CAASDrVnok2YcCs7qJ1E+iXkWO1xVA_EPJmCJA=nr_jbp2etC-Q@mail.gmail.com> you write: >Personally I haven't had so much time lately to contribute but I hope we >can have FreeBSD running on Macbook Air soon... I run FreeBSD in a a Virtualbox virtual machine on my Macbook. It is straightforward to have X clients in the VM talk to windows in the native xquartz X server. This works for me a lot better than native FreeBSD on a laptop -- my last computer was a Lenovo X400 running FreeBSD natively, and I wasted too much time trying to get Chrome and other third party X apps to work. Now I can run Chrome on MacOS, and the stuff under FreeBSD that works better there. Virtualbox is free, setting up FreeBSD under it is a snap, must download an ISO boot image, and install on the virtual machine from that.
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